I am not an advocate of hunting, but if you are going to hunt them let us marvel at the beauty of the creature. It is also a great way to take common skulls like coyote skulls and clean them so you can paint native american art on them.

For beautiful European mounts:

1 ) Clean the meat off by using a mix of 2-3 table. spoon of Sal Soda in a huge pot of boiling water. This is the mix for a huge pot for a deer sized skull. adjust the mixture for your pot and skull

2) mix 40 volume peroxide with whitening powder to make paste. Cover skull using paint brush. some say mix like toothpaste. i like to mix a little more runny, let dry completely, overnight to 24 hours is best. let it pull the color out. wash with warm water. this mixture is hard on your skin. use rubber gloves!

3) spray dry skull with water based polyurethane satin finish!

Hints:

1) After whiting the skull seal it with polyurethane finish within a week or two. yellowing will occur if you don't seal it. a great deal of the yellowing can be corrected by applying the whiting mix later. but it will never be as white as the first time.

2) The sooner you go thru this process the better. The longer you wait the lesser the result. although i would try it any time. as they say, better late than never, and even some old skulls turn out pretty nice.

I should mention i am not advocate for hunting!. I have never shot a gun. don't anticipate i will ever own or shoot a gun. i recognize some of my friends are going to shoot animals. at least this will help you retain the beauty of the animal for many to enjoy. i agree with chris rock, "bullets should cost 5 thousand dollars each. then there would be no innocent by standers!" anyway if you use this recipe, please send me a photo of your mount! e mail to jim@nationwideshelving.com thanks!

Here are similar instructions for a taxidermist

1) First g et the hide off the head and cut away all the meat, membrane , etc. that you can.

    2) Get a pot large enough to submerge the skull in, or the biggest one you can get your hands on. Don't take your wife/girlfriend best cooking pot this will only cause you more aggravation than you are about to undertake. You will also need to do this outside cause it does cause a odor. You will also need some type of fire like a propane burner.

    3) Fill the pot up with water and add Dawn dish detergent (this is a good grease cutter) I also have a taxidermy product in my shop called Sal Soda ( which  is Sodium Bicarbonate which can also be bought in a grocery store "Arm N Hammer" Laundry detergent) that I use with the Dawn .
  Bring the water to a boil with the skull submerged, If there are antlers attached to the skull you want to keep them out of the water if possible, cause they will turn a light color. If they do it is no real big deal they can be touched up with a little wood stain.

    4) Every 15 minutes or so take the skull out, BE CAREFUL it will be hot and there will be hot water trapped inside.
Now take a semi dull knife and start scraping everything off the skull. This is very time consuming work but is very important. When you have got off everything that wants to come off stick it back into the pot and repeat this process until the skull is CLEAN and I mean clean if you leave any thing it will draw bugs , have an odor and you know what the little lady will say about what you can do with your skull.

    5) The best way to clean out the brain is every time you take the skull out of the pot is to pack as much borax into the brain cavity as you can an let the he borax soak up all the moisten, than take a screw driver an scoop out all the dried up borax. You need to make sure this area is spotless an often over looked.

6 ) If you loose any teeth in the process let the water cool and poor it out through a screen an than super glue them back in. Once I am done cleaning I usually but a small amount of super glue on the inside of the teeth just to make sure they are stable.

7 ) What I do next is just a precaution step in case I missed something I could not reach or see. I pack Borax (get this at the local grocery store " 20 Mule Team Borax" ) in everyplace I can and rub it all over the skull and let it sit over night, than shake it out, than rinse under cool water the next day.

8 ) Now the next step is a chemical process and most chemicals are not going to be available to the public. I mix magnesium carbonate and volume 40 peroxide ( the peroxide you can get in the store is 3% an not strong enough) than paint it onto a skull and let sit over night. Once dry I rinse it off with cool water, if needed I repeat this step. I have never done it more than twice, this stuff really is pretty strong.
        a) Since theses chemicals are for taxidermy use they are not going to be available without a Lic ,
     Due to a lot of request I have put together a European Mount Kit that has all the chemicals with instructions that will do two or more deer type skulls for  If you would like to Order this kit fill out this FORM an I will get it ship right out to you by priority mail . Included in the kit is 4oz Magnesium Carbonate, 2oz 40% peroxide, latex gloves, mixing cup, stirring stick, instructions.
        b) There are other methods that I have never used but have been told work but not as well as the above process. Soak skull in peroxide overnight and than sit out in the sun, or you can always paint it white.

9 ) The next thing I like to do is seal the skull, I do this by spraying a gloss or satin coat of clear acrylic. I use the  Krylon brand and it can be found in most any paint store.